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Re: Atom 1.1 is out

#11

Post by drdaeman »

I've tried that editor year or so ago, and was disappointed that it ever tried to connect to the network to do all sort of stuff. Don't really remember any details, I think there was some analytics, auto-updates etc etc.

I'm certain that it can all be disabled, but is there any ready to use recipe to do so? I mean, I want all the non-network-related software I use to literally never try to do anything network-related (besides loopback connections, okay), except when explicitly told to do so.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

#12

Post by xdinomode »

I have Atom and Brackets installed but see no reason to use them over Sublime Text.. My preferred text editor would be vim simply because I can code while ssh'd.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

#13

Post by acabal »

Glad to hear they seem to have fixed the fuzzy finder. It was really terrible, and I actually switched back to Sublime because its fuzzy finder is fantastic. The relief in switching back to Sublime's finder was palpable, but I'll give Atom 1.1 another shot.

It's interesting reading about the character measurement problem. That makes me wonder if it's even worth building a text editor based on web technologies. Sublime appears to be based on traditional tech, and a single developer has built it into the cross-platform gold standard. Atom is built on experimental DOM-based tech, and a team funded by a massive company is still jumping through hoops to do things like measure the length of a line. Is whatever DOM brings to the table worth it? I genuinely don't know.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

#14

Post by tetrep »

drdaeman wrote: post #11

I've tried that editor year or so ago, and was disappointed that it ever tried to connect to the network to do all sort of stuff. Don't really remember any details, I think there was some analytics, auto-updates etc etc. I'm certain that it can all be disabled, but is there any ready to use recipe to do so? I mean, I want all the non-network-related software I use to literally never try to do anything network-related…

If you're concerned about applications using network resources, I'd highly recommend an outbound firewall. Not only can you actually guarantee your applications aren't making arbitrary network connections, but you can also use applications that attempt to, and simply block them when they try. Assuming OSX (because Atom), Little Snitch solves this issue quite nicely.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

#16

Post by Scarbutt »

acabal wrote: post #13

Glad to hear they seem to have fixed the fuzzy finder. It was really terrible, and I actually switched back to Sublime because its fuzzy finder is fantastic. The relief in switching back to Sublime's finder was palpable, but I'll give Atom 1.1 another shot. It's interesting reading about the character measurement problem. That makes me wonder if it's even worth building a text editor based on web technologies. Sublim…

What the sublimetext author did was indeed impressive.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

#17

Post by seanwilson »

acabal wrote: post #13

Glad to hear they seem to have fixed the fuzzy finder. It was really terrible, and I actually switched back to Sublime because its fuzzy finder is fantastic. The relief in switching back to Sublime's finder was palpable, but I'll give Atom 1.1 another shot. It's interesting reading about the character measurement problem. That makes me wonder if it's even worth building a text editor based on web technologies. Sublim…

> Atom is built on experimental DOM-based tech, and a team funded by a massive company is still jumping through hoops to do things like measure the length of a line. Is whatever DOM brings to the table worth it? I genuinely don't know.

I'm guessing the big win is Atom gets to take advantage of all the advances being made in the active JavaScript, Node and WebKit communities. At the rate things are going (e.g. JavaScript is much faster compared to a few years ago), I'd imagine any problems they're facing now will get solved eventually.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

#18

Post by d2xdy2 »

seanwilson wrote: post #10
d2xdy2 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just updated to Atom 1.1 on my early 2015 rMBP... still takes upward of 20 seconds to open up a project containing Once its started, it lags quite a bit. I really _want_ to use Atom, but the performance just kills it for me.

You should report this as a bug I think. I've used Atom on a similar machine for large projects with large commit histories and it's never takes more than a few seconds to open.

I might do that, I just hate submitting bug reports without being able to really say where the problem is sort of coming from.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

#19

Post by sktrdie »

acabal wrote: post #13

Glad to hear they seem to have fixed the fuzzy finder. It was really terrible, and I actually switched back to Sublime because its fuzzy finder is fantastic. The relief in switching back to Sublime's finder was palpable, but I'll give Atom 1.1 another shot. It's interesting reading about the character measurement problem. That makes me wonder if it's even worth building a text editor based on web technologies. Sublim…

Considering the amount of packages (plugins) it has, I'd say it is worth it.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

#20

Post by tracker1 »

Man, I will have to give atom a try again... been using VS Code for a few months now because when I last tried atom it was painfully slow... I really like the inline markdown preview.

Between Atom, VS Code and others, it's really interesting to see all of these tools built around the browser. It's funny because this is heavier than what Mozilla envisioned with XUL apps sharing a runtime.

That said, at least writing apps against a desktop deployment, android, ios, and web being able to reuse a lot of logic is a pretty nice feature to have... Even if you don't like JS. It's a trade off, but kind of exciting just the same.

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